SAPO Commission Admits 27 Candidates to the First Stage of Selection

On October 19, the SAPO Competition Commission held a meeting and approved a list of 27 candidates admitted to the next stage of the competition. In total, 29 applications were submitted: 27 from men and 2 from women.

This was the first meeting attended by the commission’s new member, Yevhen Hrushovets. The Council of Prosecutors selected him following the removal of lawyer Oleksii Shevchuk.

The following candidates have been admitted to the next stage:

1. Oleksandr Avdieienko
2. Rostyslav Batih
3. Oleksandr Bozhko
4. Ihor Harvanko
5. Vitalii Hrechyshkin
6. Andrii Hrushanskyi
7. Olena Demkiv
8. Volodymyr Druzhynin
9. Mykola Karas
10. Andrii Kasian
11. Oleksandr Kravets
12. Ivan Kravchuk
13. Taras Litynskyi
14. Nataliia Maistruk
15. Oleh Makar
16. Vadym Milianovskyi
17. Nazar Mruchok
18. Viktor Novozhylov
19. Andrii Ovcharenko
20. Sviatoslav Onishchuk
21. Andrii Pashutin
22. Andrii Pastukh
23. Petro Pokryshchenko
24. Serhii Savytskyi
25. Oleksandr Sytnykov
26. Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk
27. Mykhailo Yurevych

The commission also reviewed the applications that did not meet the established requirements. Candidate Oleksii Shevchuk was not admitted because his application form had no photograph and he had not submitted a certificate of security clearance for access to state secrets, even though his form stated that he held such clearance.

Edgard Khairutdinov was not admitted because he had not provided written consent to a background check and had submitted his documents after the deadline. Commission members stressed the need to follow the established rules and deadlines for submitting documents.

The decision not to admit the two candidates was taken by vote. It can be appealed within three days.

The next stage of the competition, a test of legal knowledge, will take place in Kyiv on November 1.